A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
A.C. GRAYLING
If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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Look at the blogosphere – the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
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I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
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Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event.
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Inculcating the various competing – competing, note – falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
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Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
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When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?
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Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
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